Mother’s Night and the Twelve Days of Yuletide

For the next 12 days I am going to be doing a series on some of the Old European traditions associated midwinter. We begin with the twelve days themselves.

We all know the popular song, but what are the twelve days of Christmas? If you go looking, you’ll likely be told the 12 days of Christmas begin on Christmas Day and end on January 6th. From the birth of Christ to the coming of the 3 wise men. Twelve days plucked from the people who celebrated the Earth and handed in a neat little package of Christian theology, avoiding old traditions like Mother’s Night.

Twelve days of Yuletide, Folklore & HistoryAri DalyDecember 20, 2019twelvedaysofchristmas, prechristian, yuletide, mothersnight Comment